TY - UNPB ID - cogprints389 UR - http://cogprints.org/389/ A1 - Post, John F. TI - Breakwater: The New Wave, Supervenience and Individualism Y1 - 1999/// N2 - New-wave psychoneural reduction, a la Bickle and Churchland, conflicts with the way certain adaptation properties are individuated according to evolutionary biology. Such properties cannot be reduced to physical properties of the token items that have the adaptation properties. The New Wave may entail a form of individualism inconsistent with evolutionary biology. All of this causes serious trouble as well for Jaegwon Kim's thesis of the Causal Individuation of Kinds, his Weak Supervenience thesis, Alexander's Dictum, his synchronicity thesis that all psychological kinds supervene on the contemporaneous physical states of the organism, Correlation Thesis, and indeed his Restricted Correlation Thesis. All these theses are strongly individualist, in the sense of entailing that ALL a thing's properties are determined by its own physical properties and relations, contrary to many properties in biology and psychology. AV - public KW - Bickle KW - Churchland KW - Kim KW - Brandon KW - individualism KW - individuation KW - supervenience KW - global supervenience KW - weak supervenience KW - reduction KW - psychoneural reduction KW - physicalism KW - materialism KW - property KW - dualism KW - property dualism KW - kinds KW - natural kinds KW - adaptation KW - adaptation kind KW - correlation thesis KW - Alexander's dictum KW - causal individuation of kinds KW - downward causation KW - nonreductive physicalism KW - nonreductive materialism KW - function KW - teleofunction KW - proper function ER -